Renowned poet Molly Peacock will be the featured speaker in the next installment of Hofstra University's "Great Writers, Great Readings" series. Her reading will take place on Tuesday, November 18, at 7 p.m. at the Monroe Lecture Center Theater, located off of California Avenue on Hofstra's South Campus.
This event is free and open to the public. For information, please call ( 516 ) 463-5410.
"Great Writers, Great Readings" was launched by Hofstra University in recognition of the importance of writing and literature in a liberal arts education. In addition to a baccalaureate degree in English, Hofstra offers a Master of Arts in English and Creative Writing. The program's faculty include eminent essayist Philip Lopate, writers Erik Brogger and Julia Markus and two Guggenheim Fellows: novelist Martha McPhee and poet Phillis Levin.
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Molly Peacock is the author of six volumes of poetry, including The Second Blush and Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems, both published by W.W. Norton and Company. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as other leading literary journals. Widely anthologized, her poems appear in The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry.
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